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TIL that New Zealand’s parliament draws bills for debate at random from ‘the biscuit tin of democracy’, a literal biscuit tin kept in the clerk’s office.

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a8VLN TIL William Bligh was not only overthrown as Governor of New South Wales in Australia’s only military coup but was previously overthrown as Captain in the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
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KYMR4 TIL that a gherkin is a pickled baby cucumber
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